Five young journalists from South East Europe appeared on the stage of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the capital Skopje, on July 2nd: Una Hajdari (Kosovo), Ana Benacic (Croatia), Aleksandar Brezar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) as well as Saska Cvetkovska and Bojan Stojkovski (both from North Macedonia). In their presentations they talked about their own partly investigative researches in an entertaining way. Una Hajdari presented her project in cooperation with Ai Weiwei and focused on the challenges of trying to deliver a piano to a refugee camp in Greece. Bojan Stojkovski presented the rare coincidence that you might have found a person with the right name, but that person turns out to be the wrong person and drew the conclusion that you can rely on friends even at work. Ana Benacic talked about the various theories of the origin of the Covid pandemic and the challenge for fact checkers in the Covid pandemic to check whether breathing masks can be baked. The focus of Aleksandar Brezar's presentation was on an investigative report about a cemetery in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at whose official address a beauty salon is registered.
The on-site audience and viewers of the online stream selected in the end Saska Cvetkovska as the winner. She captivated the audience and the viewers with her story about the work of the chief fact checker Birgit Brauer at the investigative journalist network OCCPR and now has the opportunity to take part in the Reporter Slam championship in Berlin in 2022.
The Media Programme organised the event in cooperation with Jochen Markett, who invented the Reporter Slam series and moderated the evening, and with The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM).